CVE-2018-11761

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

In Apache Tika 0.1 to 1.18, the XML parsers were not configured to limit entity expansion. They were therefore vulnerable to an entity expansion vulnerability which can lead to a denial of service attack.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.5/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-611

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Sep 19, 2018
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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